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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 132320
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Posted: 23 May 2017 at 6:20am | IP Logged | 1
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As I have mentioned before, Marvel/Disney is doing serious due diligence these days, in terms of getting royalty payments made. But sometimes this can have a rather humorous effect. Case in point, yesterday I received an email from them, with an attached PDF of the latest royalty statements. It ran thirty-four (34!) pages, and the total, way down at the bottom was... less than $400! All those pages were filled with listings of multiple payments of 4¢, 8¢, 6¢ and so on.I kid you not! A long way from the Marvel of yore, who would tell me they "couldn't keep track" of all the uses of my work!
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James Johnson Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 March 2009 Location: United States Posts: 2067
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Posted: 23 May 2017 at 7:28am | IP Logged | 2
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... less than $400!
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Just enough to keep the lights on for another 30 days! :-)
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Erin Anna Leach Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 21 February 2006 Location: United States Posts: 746
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Posted: 23 May 2017 at 10:11am | IP Logged | 3
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Well, I suppose that is better than they were doing.
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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 132320
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Posted: 23 May 2017 at 10:23am | IP Logged | 4
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MUCH!
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Michael Hogan Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2052
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Posted: 23 May 2017 at 12:48pm | IP Logged | 5
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JB, if you need ideas for the $400, my birthday is right around the corner...
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Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 16430
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Posted: 23 May 2017 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | 6
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If only you received retroactive payments for all the years when you should have received royalties and Marvel didn't own up to it. Ah well, nice to know some things do change for the better.
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Doug Centers Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 February 2014 Location: United States Posts: 5480
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Posted: 23 May 2017 at 4:12pm | IP Logged | 7
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Question JB, on those 34 itemized pages does it list the reference for your royalty?
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Joe Zhang Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 12857
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Posted: 23 May 2017 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | 8
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It likely cost Marvel more than $400 in wages to put together that PDF.
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Mark Waldman Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1272
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Posted: 23 May 2017 at 6:47pm | IP Logged | 9
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Finally something better than the good ol' days! Glad you are getting your due, JB.
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Steve Gumm Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 10 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 1453
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Posted: 23 May 2017 at 7:27pm | IP Logged | 10
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Happy for you John!
You must be glad to hear that the Dark Phoenix movie is coming out, not for viewing purposes, but for the boost to the ol' bank account!
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John Byrne
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Posted: 24 May 2017 at 6:45am | IP Logged | 11
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You must be glad to hear that the Dark Phoenix movie is coming out, not for viewing purposes, but for the boost to the ol' bank account! •• That remains to be seen. If this was a DC movie, I would arrange for an expansion of my money bin. Since it's Marvel, tho, even in these enlightened times I doubt the rewards will be so high. I received less for DAYS OF FUTURE PAST than I did for SUPERMAN vs BATMAN!!
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marios ksidonas Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 25 March 2015 Location: Greece Posts: 106
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Posted: 24 May 2017 at 11:34am | IP Logged | 12
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I wonder if you recieved anything for this or 40 years ago you had that kind of agreement??? even in high framerate 40 years later they use your material that you made for one purpose(to publish a comic book ) and they used it to create an introdactory for their movies!!! Stills are taken from their late film Logan....
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